Emil Schulz (boxer)

Emil Schulz (born May 25, 1938 in Kaiserslautern ; † March 22, 2010 ibid) was a German boxer who started for the FRG. His biggest success was winning the silver medal at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the middleweight division.

Career

Emil Schulz began boxing as a teenager in 1951 in the boxing department of 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He developed into a good boxer relatively quickly, but only achieved his first successes in the senior sector in southwest Germany. In 1956 he became Association Champion Southwest for the first time and won this title without interruption until 1964 in the half-welter to medium weight classes . He was southpaw and had a dreaded left flapping hand.

As early as 1957 Schulz started with the elimination of the DABV for the European light welterweight championship, but was defeated by the multiple BRD champion Karl Wagner from Radolfzell on points. In 1960 Emil Schulz was first used by DABV in international matches. He had to pay a lot of money, because he lost against the French Souleymane Diallo , a later top professional boxer and against the Soviet athlete Yevgeny Feofanow by knockout. He fought for the full time with the later Soviet Olympic champion Valeri Popentschenko , but could not win.

In November 1960 Emil Schulz won his first BRD middleweight championship in Cologne . In the final he defeated Paul Hogh from Stuttgart safely on points.

He was also BRD middleweight champion in 1961 with a point victory over Norbert driver from Herten / Westphalia . Then the boxing association Schulz also used at the European Championships in Belgrade , where he defeated J. Mammers from the Netherlands on points in the round of 16. In the quarter-finals, he suffered a narrow point defeat against the experienced Yugoslav Dragoslav Jakovljević and was eliminated. Schulz took a good 5th place.

In 1962 Emil Schulz was again BRD middleweight champion in Iserlohn by winning points over Norbert Driver. There were no international championships this year. In an international match between the FRG and Poland in Munich , however, he managed a smooth victory over the reigning European middleweight champion Tadeusz Walasek .

On May 4, 1963 Emil Schulz won in Freiburg im Breisgau over Ewald Wichert from Hamm on points and won his fourth BRD championship title. At the subsequent European Championships in Moscow he met the Dutchman J. Mammers again in the first round, whom he defeated this time in the second round by knockout. In the quarter-finals, he also managed a knockout victory over the representative of the GDR Bernd Anders . In the semifinals, Emil Schulz lost to Ion Monea from Romania on points. By reaching the semi-finals, he had won an EM bronze medal.

In 1964 Emil Schulz defeated Ewald Wichert on points in the BRD championship and qualified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo by defeating the GDR champion Bernd Anders from TSC Berlin in the elimination for the all-German Olympic team . In Tokyo he won the round of 16 by knockout in the second round over Briton William Stack and defeated Ion Monea and Francesco Valle from Italy on points in the quarter- and semi-finals . In the final he faced Valery Popentschenko, from whom he was caught off guard in the first round and was knocked out. So he won an Olympic silver medal .

Emil Schulz fell seriously ill in the spring of 1965. He recovered from his lung disease, but was unable to continue his sports career. In the following years he passed on some of his knowledge as a boxing trainer in his hometown.

Schulz was married. In 2008 the sports club 1. FC Kaiserslautern held a big reception in the football stadium on the occasion of his 70th birthday and praised him as a role model for the youth. Emil Schulz died on March 22, 2010 in the West Palatinate Clinic in Kaiserslautern.

Honors

• Silver bay leaf

Country fights by Emil Schulz

• 1957 in Kaiserslautern , southwest against Scotland , points winner over Dignan,
• 1960 in Besançon , France against FRG , knockout loss 2nd round against Souleymane Diallo ,
• 1960 in Kiev , USSR against FRG, point defeat against Valeri Popentschenko ,
• 1960 in Moscow , USSR against FRG, knockout loss 1 round against Yevgeny Feofanov ,
• 1961 in Frankfurt am Main , Germany against Italy knockout winner 1st round over Giovanni Pautassi,
• 1962 in Munich , FRG against Poland , points winner over Tadeusz Walasek ,
• 1962 in Lagos , Nigeria against FRG, points winner over Lewis Olayinka,
• 1962 in Abidjan , Ivory Coast against BRD, points winner over Bidjan Koissy,
• 1962 in Innsbruck , Austria against FRG, point defeat against Rusch,
• 1963 in Wrocław , Poland against FRG, points winner over Tadeusz Walasek,
• 1964 in Bucharest , Romania against Germany, points winner over Ion Monea ,
• 1964 in Stuttgart , Germany against Poland, draw against Lucjan Slovakiewicz ,
• 1964 in Munster , Germany against England , knockout winner 1st round over A. Moore

German championships with Emil Schulz (final results)

• 1960 in Cologne , points winner over Paul Hogh , Stuttgart ,
• 1961 in Berlin , points winner over Norbertreiber, Herten / Westphalia ,
• 1962 in Iserlohn , points winner over Norbertreiber,
• 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau , point winner over Ewald Wichert , Hamm ,
• 1964 in Munich , points winner over Ewald Wichert

swell

• Box Sport magazine from 1956 to 1965,
• BOX-ALMANACH 1920–1980 , publisher of the German Amateur Boxing Association, 1980,
• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl"

Web links

• Emil Schulz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

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